Not my name on Nostr: This is good advice with the small exception that being realistic about one’s own ...

This is good advice with the small exception that being realistic about one’s own situation is also important for growth and positive change. It is also critical for avoidance of false happiness traps like consumerism, religion, reproduction, politics, etc.

Humans are filled with biases that make them prone to wishful or magical thinking. So much so that entire cultures have been built around them.

The reality at this point is that we have collectively destroyed our world and now live in an overpopulated shit hole under the constant influence and surveillance of a ruling class.

Over and over, humanity has happily traded our most precious freedoms for the promise of someone else’s certainty and “truth”.

This is reality. And we are just too dumb and scared now to face it. Furthermore, our ability to even see the walls of our prison has been carefully bred out of us over millennia.

So don’t go falling for another trap by trying to treat realism with antidepressants. It will just numb you, like alcohol, drugs, sex, food, etc, when what you actually should do is figure out a way to be happy without fooling yourself that the world is all sunshine and lollipops.

Find a way to truly get outside (this is getting harder and harder to do), engage in daily mental and physical exercise, maintain good relationships and eliminate bad ones, practice introspection and seek personal growth, seek out art and creative pursuits, accomplish your own worthy goals, find perspective, become efficient, and develop your self-sufficiency.

There, a recipe (I’m sure there are others) for humanity to pull themselves out of the mess they’ve gotten themselves into. No one will listen though, and we’ll just keep running head first into our masters chains. We are just silly anxious creatures after all.

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#thinkdangerously
#realism